Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-07-01
LOCAL NEWS.


Saxony correspondence at Dorman's.
The United church picnic at High ROCK to-
day July y.
The July Century is received and for sale
by Pease & Son.
A delegation of the Arions visited Concor-
dia society, Bridgeport, Wednesday eve
ming.
Great preparations for the Fourth at the
Beach House and Hotel Sea View, Savin
Rock, West Haven.
About fifty couples gave Officer Frank D.
Cook a surprise party last Wednesday eve
ming. All had fine time.
The Emmett club holds its annual picnic
at Hamilton Park next Monday. Games,
races and Landrigan's band music.
About half of the band concerts in Wash
ington Park, Bridgeport, this season have
had to be omitted on account of rain.
The two hundred and twenty-fourth year
of Hopkins Grammar school will open Thurs
day, September 22nd. See advertisement in
another column.
W. A. Harris and party of about thirty
friends will spend Fourth of July at the
Thimble Islands, making the trip on the
steamer 1vernia.
A. G. Fisher and F. A. Waldron, of the
New Haven Bicycle club, propose to whesl
from Brooklyn to Peconic, L. T., 100 miles
starting next Sunday morning,
Dr. Edward McGlynn delivered his new
Crusade lecture in the opera house at New
London last evening. There were about
eight hundred persons present.
The Bridgeport clothing store proprietors
have voted to close their stores all day next
Monday. The Bridgeport Calidonians make
a street parade on the glorious Fourth.
The flowers used in decorating the Derby
Congregational church on the occasion of the
Prentiss-Gilbert wedding on Tuesday were
sent to the New Haven orphan asylum.
Principal French's little girl is considerably
better. She was taken i'll with thu same
disease, diphtheria, of which Mr.. French's son
died. The little girls recovery is now ex-
pected.
At Mantle the regiments will go into
camp the same at last year, the Fourth on
the right, the First next, then the Second
and Third, with the Fifth battalion and the
battery.
Mr. Thomas Stammen, of 214 East street,
is sadly afflicted and bereaved, having lost
four children in the last few years. The
funeral of his infant son took place yester-
day afternoon.
Mrs. II. G. Hovey, who was Frustrated by
the heat on commencement day, is now pro-
nounced by her physician wholly out of
danger. The first rumors made her case more
alarming than it really was.
The stockholders of the Naugatuck railroad
met at the company's Office in this city yes
terday and ratified the lease of the road made
by the directors to the Consolidated road
for a term of ninety-nine years.
The steamer Messenger, Captain Foster,
carried many passengers yesterday to Stiles
Park, Lighthouse Point. The sail is de-
1ightful one and affords fine chance to e.
cape from the hot wave which was ushered
in SO decidedly yesterday.
Jonathan Dudley, s. w. F. Andrews and
Ebenezer Gilbert have been appointed by the
East Haven school district committee to
decide whether to erect brick school house
in the place of the two wooden ones now in
use. They will give their decision July IA.
Cards are out for the marriage of Van
Phou Lee, Yale '87, of Fragrant Hills, China,
to Miss Elizabeth Maude Jerome of this city
The ceremony takes place at II o'clock, July
9th, at the residence of the brides mother,
Mrs. E. Gilbert Jerome, No. "a Gilbert
avenue. Yam Phou Les is the gentleman
whose Grafton day before yestc cday at Yale
commencement exercises elected so many
encomiuna